Donald Hartung Trial Day 4 - Seaborn Rodenbury Jr - Attorney & Mark Bailey - Defendant's Co Worker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- NOTE: This is a Death Penalty Case.
Donald Hartung, 63, stands trial in Escambia County, Florida for allegedly killing his mother Voncile Smith, 77, and his half-brothers John William Smith, 49, and Richard Thomas Smith, 47. He faces three counts of first-degree premeditated murder. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Escambia County deputies say the crimes happened July 28, 2015, according to an amended arrest report obtained by Law&Crime. Richard Smith, an employee of the Department of Homeland Security, had no-showed worked for a few days, so on deputies checked up on him on July 31. They found no sign of forced entry, but were able to enter through the back with the help of firefighters, and found the three victims dead throughout the home. Each person was under “large piles of clothes,” deputies said.
Richard Smith had been shot around his right ear, and had a stab wound to the throat, deputies said. He was found face down in the TV room at the foot of the TV, investigators said. Authorities said he was wearing the same clothes he’d been wearing when pictured leaving work at 6:36 p.m. on July 28.
John Smith was found in a sofa on front of a TV. He sustained blunt force trauma to the top of his head, and received a stab wound to the neck, authorities said.
As for their mother, she sustained blunt force trauma to the top of her head and received a stab wound to the neck. Authorities said she’d been dragged from a chair into John’s bedroom.
According to deputies, Hartung was at the house on the 28th to cook dinner, as usual. He left between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 pm, he allegedly said, but he denied seeing his brother Richard. A neighbor, however, claimed to see Richard arrive at the residence before Hartung left, investigators said. This witness was not sure of the time, but said it was just before dark because the lights on Hartung’s car was not on, authorities said.
Another witness-who was a co-worker’s of Hartung-said that he previously had a conversation with the defendant. In it, the alleged killer said that if anything happened to Voncile Smith, then he would inherit all of her property because he was the oldest son. The mom’s attorney, however, said that she’d kept him out of the will, deputies said. Hartung would’ve been the “potential sole heir” to his family’s estate because there were no other living relatives of the Smith family.
The defendant has been called the “Blue Moon Killer” because at the time, the local sheriff described the slayings as “ritualistic” and apparently coincided with a semi-rare blue moon.
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Why is there always hacking out a lung during these trails?
Even if Mr. Seaborn isn't the best estate attorney ever, I still want him for my grandpa! He looks like the sweetest old man.
That's his first name...
There doesn’t seem to be any evidence! Am I missing something?
Helen Phelan nope, you aren’t missing much. I’m having a hard time seeing any hard evidence yet.
Helen Phelan no I’m waiting on actual evidence everything is barely circumstantial. If no real evidence comes up in this case and he gets convicted that will be a huge failure on the justice systems part. So far I haven’t heard anything or seen anything concrete
Jessica Mendez would not be the first time!
Not only is there no evidence but a criminal attempt to frame him with an absurd "jailhouse informant"
This defense attorney is not asking the right questions IMO 🤔 Hartung NEEDS a DEFENSE
That’s a huge error in the will. Although his name wasn’t in the will the person excluded isn’t the defendant. It’s his son.
No, because the will specifically states, "I make no provision for my son..."
While the attorney may have made a typographical error in putting "Jr.," instead of "Sr.," this is the reason a proper will calls for you to mention each person's relationship to you, not just their names.
@@melissamoss9253 Oh interesting, I didn't know that!
@@melissamoss9253 exactly
That's what I heard the prosecutor read
The estate attorney seems just as incompetent as the investigator. How in the heck do you get a name on a blasted will wrong as an estate attorney???? Is he correctly recalling details of this, or is he wrong, just as he was when drafting the will???? And then, at the end of his testimony, he had the audacity to addesss the jury on his own, without being questioned, and tell them he hoped his testimony cleared things up for them????? As an attorney practicing so long, he should definitely know better than to address the jury on his own. Once again, a state's witness has been proven to be incompetent.
He started getting sloppy by the 900th Will.
I agree it's improper for him to address the jury, and the judge should've said something, but regarding the will, it specifically states, "I make no provision for MY SON..." [emphasis mine]
While the attorney may have made a typographical error in putting "Jr.," instead of "Sr.," this is the reason a proper will calls for you to mention each person's relationship to you, not just their names.
Everyone makes errors at all ages. No one on earth is exempt from that. She should have caught the error when she read it before signing it but then again everyone makes mistakes.
Personally I think he did it--but if I were to base his guilt on the evidence--I would have to find him not guilty. Also--he is creepy, but a lot of the "creepiness" comes from his weight loss. If you look at photos taken when he was arrested, he has probably lost 40 lbs--makes him look like the living dead
Agree, I couldn't convict either. Even though I do believe he did it.
He is is jail. Look at murderess Pam Hupp. She looks great now. It's called The Inedible Prison Food Weight Loss Diet.
I'm only just watching this today (2023) and I agree with you. I'm watching with an open mind and relying on only the evidence presented here in court (I have no prior knowledge of this case) and so far (I'm on day 4 of this trial) I could not find him guilty. That may change as the case goes on but so far I see no evidence.
A true southerner would have replied to Mr Seaborn Rodenberry’s comment at the end of his testimony with “you come back to see us anytime”
“Take your time going, and hurry back!”
Punishment for defense attorneys
HE never SHOWERS!
Why isn't the original will registered in the county or court, who gives the original will to the person to take home, or did I hear that wrong? I don't think they have any evidence either, and the prison informer murdered his girlfriend with a hammer wtf
I really like this prosecutor!
She was also the prosecutor at the Ashley MacArthur trial... She's awesome!
He’s smiling while his coworker is testifying is wrong. We are talking about a triple murder.
Why is he doing that, What’s funny to him ?
He’s done it throughout whole the trial but usually hiding it better
Looks like he mouths the words “he’s lying” while smiling
Kel Cal yup! Then he wrote it down on paper and slid it to his attorney.
The defendant was smiling because his co-worker's testimony actually worked for his defense. (about how lovingly he talked about his mom all the time. ) It actually hurt the state's case and he was their witness! Oops!
I don’t think the guy did it.
Theirs no actual evidence... still haven't heard any
Me ether!
Hartung reminds me of an older version of the tall brother in Everybody Loves Raymond.
Lol!
Oh my goodness! So funny!
Haaaaahahahahaha
Ha!!! Now that's all I see 🤣
I love the judge. He’s so personable.
Fellow fan of the judge here
NibiruLives Yep, I am from Wisconsin!
I think he looks like the Fonz
MasterCedar You’re right, he looks like a combination of the Fonz And Tony Danza.
The fact that the coworker said Hartung thought he would inherit money, only helps the defendant's case, since the state insists his motive was being left out of the will. And the gentleman from the crime lab ony reiterated the fact that the state has no evidence, apart from the testimony of an 8 time convicted felon, who probably snuck and read the defendant's discovery materials.
@@SB-hr5yr Here's the facts according to the Pensacola News Journal:
Man gets 30-year prison sentence for beating girlfriend with claw hammer
A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in state prison for savagely beating his girlfriend over the head with a claw hammer and fleeing the scene, leaving the woman unconscious and bleeding in a bedroom...... Marlin Devon Purifoy pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in May....... The 9-year-old daughter of Purifoy's girlfriend called police after she found her mother unconscious and covered in blood in the family's master bedroom on Feb. 6, 2016. The girl took her younger siblings to a neighbor's house for help.
The woman had severe lacerations on her head and face and suffers from a traumatic brain injury.
@@girlfromsouth214 so he received his sentence before he gave his testimony
@@zameredouglas6798 Did you listen to the actual testimony? The 8 time convicted violent felon LITERALLY, acknowledged that he hopes the judge in his original case might decrease his time based on his testimony in this case. Judges decrease informants' time regularly. Why else do you think informants inform? Do you genuinely think this dude, who bashed his girlfriend's head in with a hammer, leaving her with major traumatic brain injuries, had zero ulterior motive in this? If so, I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona I'd like to sell you. ;)
"He said he was going to retire when he got his share." He never had a "share." His mother could do anything she damned well pleased with the money. If she wanted to buy a million dollars worth of stuff from QVC that's her right. It's her money, not his or anybody else's. He did this for one reason: greed.
They could probably clear this up by looking at Richard A. Smith's will-- since they were drawn up simultaneously, they're probably worded similarly.
Dang, they are all going to catch a cold.
Hopefully not Coronavirus...
Or pneumonia
For real, you would think the person doing all that coughing would excuse him/herself from the courtroom.
Lurch Adams Family
This prosecutor is the best
For heaven’s sake, how much money are we talking about??? Somebody please let me know!!! 🤷🏻♀️
About 800K his son said
900k I heard the prosecutor when she totaled it up.
What kind of security guy is this man, he can’t breathe or walk
@@tracyd693 not the defendant. Sharon was talking about the co-worker with the beard
Great judge.
I wonder what he’d have done had he encountered a situation as a security guard
Freeway Kenny I wondered that too
LMAO 😂! You read my mind!- he appears to be the type who's weapon of choice is a rolled up newspaper 📰 😆🤣
So many people involved in the American judicial system are really old.
I bet this firearm technician is duller than a box of rocks to his wife at the dinner table lol
I’ve tried to not notice but I think everyone involved is eat slap up
Awww, I think he’s cute
Hello Sweetheart....He would be dull to someone who doesn’t shoot. I think he’s great. I can’t shoot my FMJ hollow points at my gun range, they’ll tear the place up!! I have to buy two separate kinds of ammunition. One for target 🎯 practice at the range, and my full metal jacket hollow points for my personal protection.🙋🏽♀️💕
The attorney is so sweet!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeh, she is! Saw her in an earlier trial, she’s da bomb.
I think it is sad this man was found guilty due to circumstancal evidence
Okay, starting out, Skeletor had mouth open and was shaking a leg or something. Worst look so far! Socialize with him?!? I doubt that he socialize with anyone, but family. That, apparently, didn't work, either!
Seaborn is an awesome name...
Btw, quit sticking your finger in your ear. It just adds to your creep factor!
It's packed up, he doesn't shower
@@zameredouglas6798 Wouldn't surprise me!
The defendant seems utterly bored!
Considering the aweful 3 murders, this trial is friggin boring where's the evidence
That name :oO
I was bit did he didn't he kinda thing ,but more I listen and more I watch him ,I believe he did it ,he is very creepy ,I know that's doesn't mean he's a murderer ,The way he resigned straight away ,not compassionate leave ,he new money was coming ,also I believe he thought he could get away with this ,after all didn't arrest him till October , This cell mate ,I know he's looking for some kinda deal ,but how would he know these details if he didn't tell him stuff ,